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FRUIT URIBE., No. 286,509.v Patented Oct. 9, 1883.

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- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 286,509, dated ctober9, 1883.

Y v Application filed March 29, i883. (No model.)

To all whom t1/nay concern:

Beit known that I, C. 'WILLIAM VETTER,

of Ukiah, in the county of Mendocino and Y new and improved apparatusfor thoroughly iron sides of the stove.

and rapidly drying fruits of all kinds. l

The invention consists in a stove provided with a heating-chamberadapted to receive the i'ruitholding drawers, which drawers consist of aframe holding a perforated metal plate, and provided with two hingedcovers of perforated metal plates or wire-netting, whereby fruits can beheld between both surfaces of the perforated plate andthe correspondinghinged covers.

' Reference is to behad to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification,

in which' similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts inboth figures.

Figure l is a cross-sectional elevation of my improved fruitdrier. Fig.2 is acperspective view of one of the fruit-holding drawers, show-` ingboth the top and bottom lids open.

The stove or heater A is mounted with firebrick, to prevent the heatfrom destroying the The stove is provided with a door, B, on each side,and with like doors at the ends, which doors inclose the heating-chamberO, into which the fruit-holding drawers D are passed. A firebox, E, isarranged in the bottom of the stove, and from thesarne two pipes, F,extend to the top of of the stove, for carrying upward the smoke andconducting it into the upperpart of the stove above the heating chamberC, from whence it passes off through the flue G. The pipes F areprovided with damper-valves H. The chamber .I is provided with anaperture, a, in oneside, for the admission of air to said chamber,wherein it isiheated by the action of the heat against the bottom of thechamber J. The heat then passes up into the heating-chamber C through asuperposed perforatedplate and apertured layers of material in thebottom of the said heating-chamber, whereby the fruit in the drawers(presently described) is eX- posed to the drying action of the hot air,the moisture or vapor passing off through aper-` tures a in the top ofchamber C. The fruits are placed in drawers D, composed of a. frame, D',provided with a central partition, K, of perforated sheet metal, andwith two hinged covers, L, one at the top and another at the bottom,which hinged covers are made of wire-netting or perforated metal plates,and can be locked on the frame D by ring-bolts M, held to turn on theframe D, and adapted to pass through apertures N at the swinging edgesofthe covers L. The frame Dis provided on theouter surface of the endswith cleats 0, which are adapted to pass into suitable grooves in thesides of the heating-chamber, whereby the fruitdrawers will be held inplace.

The fruit is placed on one surface of the perforated partition .K in theframe D, and

the cover L is closed and locked, when the` drawer is inverted and fruitis placed on the other side of the partition K, and the other cover isclosed and locked, the fruitbeing held between the perforated partitionK and the covers L L. The drawer is then placed in the heating-chamberand exposed to the heat until the fruit is perfectly dry, the heatpassing through the wire-netting covers or lids L, and through theapertures in the central partition, K.

By means of the above-described fruitdrier, the fruit can be driedthoroughly in a very short time, a large quantity of fruit can be driedin a very small space, and the fruit can be packed in the heatingchamberand re Amoved from the same very rapidly.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- 1. In a fruit-drier, the fruitholding drawer D,constructed as herein shown and described, with a frame in which aperforated metal plate, K, is secured, and with two opposite hingedcovers, L, Vof perforated metal plates or wire-netting, substantially asset forth.

y 2. In a fruit-holding drawer, the combination, with the frame D',ofthe perforated metal partition or plate K, the hinged'eovers L, havingapertures N, and the bolts M, held to turn on the frame D',substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose .setforth.

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perforated metal plates or Wire-netting, and of perforated metal platesor Wire netting, devices for looking them on the frame D,subsubstantially as herein shown and described, 1o stantialiy as hereinshown and described, and and for the Vpurpose set forth.

GHARLE WILLIAM VETTER.

for the purpose set forth.

4. In a fruit-hoidingdrawer, the combinanation, with the fralne D',provided with cleats O on the ends, of the central perforated plate orpartition, K, and the hinged covers L, made

